Love
Song: Touch the Lyre, on Every String
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Love
TOUCH the lyre, on every string,
Touch it, Orpheus, I will sing,
A song which shall immortal be ;
Since she I sing 's a deity :
A Leonora, whose blest birth
Has no relation to this earth.
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MLA
Prior, Matthew. “Song: Touch the Lyre, on Every String.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/218/.
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Prior, Matthew. “Song: Touch the Lyre, on Every String.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/218/.
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